I’ve got a special extended podcast episode for you today – you can listen to it here:

How to Create Your Own Syllabus > A few notes from the episode.

I’ll be answering a question posted in our free Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/eslfreelancer I’ll be working to help you figure out how to and IF YOU SHOULD try to build your own course syllabus.

Why You Should Consider Course Books

If you focus on a niche – a specific kind of student like Business English students, or children for example, you’ll only need to invest once in the material, and keep reusing it as you grow.

Students tend to prefer structure and organization – course books can help you provide that.

You are already crazy busy – adding the work of creating course materials will only add more to your already very full plate.

Why not rely on the skills and expertise of someone who creates course materials for you – let them do what they love so you can focus on doing what you love: serving your students!

Working with professionally created course material will make you and your freelance business look PROFESSIONAL!

Resources Mentioned:

RSS reader – a great way for you to collect and track blogs, news sites, and podcasts. You need to do some up front work in that you need to fill your RSS reader with useful content sources for your students, but after that – the hard work basically gets done for you! Every time a blog you follow through your RSS reader is updated, you’ll be notified and all you need to do is open you RSS reader, and presto! The newest articles are there for you – you don’t need to waste time going to all the different websites you follow. Big time saver, and makes lesson development and planning a snap!